#renzoku

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

A.K.A. Serial Killer (Masao Adachi, 1975)

[okonominyaki]

Absolute hunk of a man Abe Hiroshi and absolute delicate flower of a guy Sakai Masato HOW is TBS giving Old Men Yaoi yet AGAIN

[pleuvoire]

gaia opening stuck in my head ALL day

[italianjoe83]

The Most Secret Plot Twist in Gaming History: Punished "Venom" Snake's True Identity Mystery in Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain

The most secret plot twist in gaming history - Punished "Venom" Snake and Ricardo "Chico" Valenciano Libre being one and the same person in Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain - was foreshadowed multiple times since (but not only...) Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker's Title Sequence (a Hideo Kojima game released in 2010 for the Sony PlayStation Portable originally planned to be titled "Metal Gear Solid 5: Peace Walker")

which shows this mirror breaking transition with two hidden butterflies (suggested play speed 0,25x) revealing - Chico Young volunteer in Snake's private army - the "Hombre Nuevo" chosen for Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid V Experience as its new main protagonist

(which includes P.T. Silent Hills Concept Movie with the Chico's head appearance...)

that was, and still is, believed by most of the audience and its english language speaking vocal minority in particular (also known as the "Metal Gear community") to have died in the final helicopter crash cutscenes from Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes showed in this video which was mirrored "for a special reason."

This crucial hint, hidden in plain sight, was secretly a direct reference left by the Metal Gear mastermind to be seen, and then revisited, only by those "good listeners" among his fans whose minds are still looking for the Truth behind the Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid V Experience in the future MGSV games released years after such as it occurs in this very pivotal moment from MGSVTPP's Episode 46 Truth The Man Who Sold The World ending cutscene when the main protagonist punches the mirror "...for a S-Special reason."

I highly recommend to read the not flipped text printed down below in this Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes' poster showing - Snake A former hero once known by the code name "Big Boss" - revealed during the Metal Gear Saga 25th Anniversary Party for the details...

The text "ƎЯƎH ꓘƆI⅃Ɔ" from Konami's Metal Gear 25th Anniversary Party Special Site was also flipped "for a special reason."

This crucial hint was also a tribute to Yuji Horii's Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken/The Portopia Serial Murder Case in which a butterfly is revealed to be a critical clue for the player trying to solve that mystery

which was one of the most influential games inspiring Hideo Kojima into starting his career as game designer

The original version for the NEC PC-6001 cassette tape data loader sound of Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken/The Portopia Serial Murder Case

was originally included in Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes' "Classified Intel Data" (timestamp 1:01:50)

and Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain's "Operation Intrude N313" cassette tapes as a clue to solve Punished "Venom" Snake's true identity mystery, the key to decipher the entire Metal Gear Solid V Experience's enigma

before being changed by the "Metal Gear Development Team" left in Konami after Kojima's departure from the company in October 9th 2015

with the MSX version of the original Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear game (here displayed during Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes boot camp held in Nasu on february 2014 in which the japanese game designer is "recreating a scene" from both his past and The Phantom Pain player's future...)

after being discovered by dataminers of the MGSVTPP pc version

in order to trying to keep hidden the most secret plot twist in gaming history before someone would have been able to find it...

...that someone was this online persona known by the username @ItalianJoe83 very long time ago (timestamp 1:41:50)

which social media activities including this video

weren’t, and are not, affiliated in any capacity with Konami Digital Entertainment like the spreading of this Google document

created and updated for years by Twitter user @HastatusAtratus

explaining in details all the issues still afflicting this Hideo Kojima's "social experiment" known as The Secret Nuclear Disarmament Event of Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain...

...which wasn't even mentioned in this DidYouKnowGaming's video and its description box about how Konami is still hiding Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain's Final Chapter from the entire playerbase since the game's release date...

...despite the fact I actually did asked to the author of this video @DrLavaYT (who asked me for my contribution after most of his video script was already finalized) to include @HastatusAtratus's username on top of the contributors list as he deserved but his name was nowhere to be seen and heard for some reason...

...and here's a now "Deleted User" Hung Horse's direct message reply to me on Discord in which he didn't just confirmed his awareness of this Google document existence but he also admitted to have took inspiration from Hastatus Atratus' monumental work into exposing Konami's agenda (way long before anybody else) for his group's activities...

...thus, everything else the audience is being shown and told in this DidYouKnowGaming's YouTube video outside from my contribution (which goes by timestamp 17:42 up to 18:26) should be considered as to being approved by/affiliated with Konami Digital Entertainment in official capacity before the final upload...

Note: this "Brain Structure" Episode #24 [ENGLISH] in which Hideo Kojima (voiced by Aki Saito) has a conversation with the Ricardo "Chico" Valenciano Libre's japanese voice actress Kikuko Inoue may also cause some "conflicts" of massive magnitude with the "good listener's" "internal timeline" starting at 35:22 up to 36:56 in particular "for a special reason."

Be aware of all this facts while you're looking for the Truth on the r/AHideoKojimaRuse subreddit...

..."Hombre"

[renzokuarc]

Bow your heads low

I have decided, he is his own being called Lian Xiu (庥, Shadow in Chinese) which makes him technically not a Renzoku

He still belongs in the Renzoku Archive

also peep the gold rendering 🤌🏾 not sure I'll do things with thick black line art in the future though, I might prefer like, every other option (thin lines, coloured lines and lineless)

Not sure how he'd go super 🤔

[vashtijoy]

The under appreciated shuake dynamic of Akira looking Akechi straight in the eye and telling him a lot of the people he killed probably deserved it.

*coughs in Okumura*

edit: Turns out Okumura isn't as bad as I thought, annoyingly since I still hate him very much. The localisation says that he's responsible for most of the mental shutdowns (which, ???).

This turns out to be a little inaccurate. Okumura is not responsible for most of the shutdowns, but for most of the "odd suspicious cases that aren't accidents or illnesses" that Sae was investigating—presumably things like the naked guy at Wild Duck Burger:

Yusuke 新島検事はまず、一連の連続事件のうち、明らかに事故や病気でない『不審なもの』を抜き出している。 niijima-kenji wa mazu, ichiren no renzoku jiken no uchi, akiraka ni jiko ya byouki de nai "fushinna mono" o nukidashiteiru First, Prosecutor Niijima has been looking into the continued cases of people suddenly collapsing. [lit. Public Prosecutor Niijima has, first of all, extracted odd suspicious cases that were obviously not accidents or illnesses from the continuing series of incidents.] First of all, Prosecutor Niijima has been looking into a subset of the incidents—the peculiar cases that obviously weren't accidents or illnesses.

Yusuke それらに共通点が無いかを探っていたらしい。 sorera ni kyoutsuuten ga nai ka o sagutteita rashii It seems she [was] searching for a common thread to tie them all together.

Yusuke 憶測の部分もあるようだが、過半数の事件で大きな利益を得る立場にあった存在を特定している。 okusoku no bubun mo aru you da ga, kahansuu no jiken de ookina rieki o eru tachiba ni atta sonzai o tokutei shiteiru Some parts seem to be speculation, but she has cited a beneficiary of the majority of these incidents.

... and that beneficiary is Okumura Foods and its CEO Okumura, of course.

Now, we know that Okumura was responsible for deaths—there's at least one case where a car overturns and all four passengers, including a VP of one of Okumura's competitors, are killed. (If you're keeping count for Akechi, that's four dead in one day alone.) Okumura is Thoroughly Unpleasant. He's just not "responsible for most of the mental shutdowns that went on for years" unpleasant.

I think I have this translation right. It makes sense, for one thing, that Okumura was responsible for most of the weird scandals. It doesn't make sense that he was responsible for most of the mental shutdowns.

[tiffanymichaels]

Another adventure awaits me this morning. I can feel it.

I woke up to my bedroom door opening, and my partner bringing me hot black coffee. I burned my knuckles on the mug. No coffee needed, actually, I'm awake just from the touch of it.

It tasted delicious. I'm a little bit obsessed with coffee, and what pairs better than coffee in another form? I opened a can of espresso I left on my nightstand, and took it down in a few swallows.

I stretched and squeaked, feeling no pressure that my alarm hadn't gone off. I checked my train, and thankfully there was one scheduled for an hour later. I booked it and quietly hoped for the best. I sat in the dark sipping my coffee and fighting intrusive thoughts to cancel my day and crawl back into bed. Music will help.

And it did! I put on some music, started singing along, and opened up my most recent puzzle game on my phone. Renzoku. I've played my way up the difficulties, competing with myself along the way. Halfway through, I decided to turn on the lamp and work on my eyebrows. Each plucking of the excess hairs brought a jolt of pain, and I enjoyed the help waking up. I'm going to look so pretty. They're going to love me.

My partner was sitting across the room petting our cat - I'm allergic, but little Doja has my heart just the same. She kept meowing at him - 30 minutes from feeding time. He said she's just too adorable to say no to.

How adorable do I have to be to get another cup of coffee? He said I'm the cutest, and after feeding Doja, he brought me more coffee.

Today is going to be a great day. The sun started poking it's head out, lightening the sky, and I turned off the music and the lamp and let the natural lighting brighten the room over the course of several silent minutes while I sipped my coffee and played my game.

I started a new song, got out from my cozy covers, and put on my prearranged outfit to signify the true start of my day. Everything begins before it truly begins, doesn't it? I picked up my already packed bags, and headed downstairs for a little snack.

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball GT 39

✨GT stands for Grotesque Trot✨

This is it, the final installment of the fight between SSJ4 Goku and Baby.  Goku challenged Baby to fight “seriously”, which is pretty rich coming from a guy who’s been phoning it in for the last several episodes.  Baby vows to eradicate Goku once and for all this time. 

Then they start running down the length of a ravine, shooting ki blasts at each other like dummies.  Stay classy, GT.

Baby’s attacks don’t seem to be working on Goku, and it’s starting to look like this “epic” conclusion is just another mismatch.  Okay, so here’s why this fight sucks. 

✨ “Good” “Ideas”, Poorly Executed✨ 

As far as I can tell, Toei’s plan for this fight was to have Goku get a new form and take on Baby as a Giant Ape. It sounds good on paper, but we’ve seen it before.  Goku fought Vegeta as a Giant Ape in DBZ. It didn’t last very long, but that was probably by design.  This Goku/Baby fight seems to be a pretty good illustration of why it’s not a good idea to do a long battle between a big monster and a teeny little human-sized fighter. In Dragon Ball, it usually boils down to the big monster lumbering around, brute forcing his way through the opponents’ attacks, and/or the little guy being an artful dodger until he manages to one-shot the beast or exploit his weak point. 

The Goku/Baby fight tries to subvert this formula by having Goku and Baby just slug it out, as if Baby were a normal-sized opponent.  And that’s not really out-of-bounds for a fantasy series like this, but it’s hard to visualize.  GT really seems to struggle with having both characters in the same shot during a fight.  I don’t know if that’s corner-cutting in the animation department, or a stylistic choice with the storyboarding, or what.  All I do know is that it sucks.  There was one part of the Goku/Rildo fight where they kept doing close-ups of the fighter’s faces as they dodged ki blasts, and it was really hard to follow the action.  A better anime might be able to pull it off, but Dragon Ball GT has enough problems as it is.  The fights ought to be the show’s saving grace, but instead it’s just one more problem to add to the list.

So you take that flawed approach to fight choreography, and then you apply it to a fight like this, where one guy is literally ten times bigger than the other, and it becomes almost impossible to make it into a five-episode epic.  The closest comparison I can think of is DBZ Movie 13, where Goku fought Hirudegarn.  Much of the action in that movie was Hirudegarn bullying the Z-Fighters with his superior size.  Then Goku turns Super Saiyan 3 and the movie goes into sudden-death rules.  Hirudegarn lands a few blows, but Goku takes them just to create an opening so he can land one big move that ends the whole fight.    It works because it’s short.  GT is trying to do Goku vs. Hirudegarn stretched out to ninety minutes, and it just does not work.

Check it out, here’s Baby getting desperate and using the “Renzoku Super Gallic Gun”.  This guy has fired off more Gallic Guns in the last five eisodes than the real Vegeta ever has in his whole life.

When that doesn’t work, he sets up his “finishing strike!”  And yes, it’s the Revenge Death Ball.  This is like the fourth time he’s used this stupid attack, and it hasn’t succeeded in killing anyone.

This isn’t even the first time he’s used it on Super Saiyan 4 Goku.  The last time he tried it, Goku didn’t even defend himself.  He just let it hit him and it didn’t do anything at all!  So why is Baby using it again?   And why is Goku struggling with it this time?  He’s supposed to be at full power, so if anything, Goku should be stronger than he was the last time he took one of these. 

I guess you can argue that this Revenge Death Ball has more juice because this is the first time Baby’s done it as a Great Ape, but... no?  I don’t think that’s how it works.  Every other time, the idea was that Baby formed the RDB by gathering the collective hatred of his Tuffleized slaves.   In theory, each RDB should be exactly the same, unless he Tuffleized more victims in the last hour and a half.

Also, wouldn’t Baby’s Tuffles be getting weaker each time he tries this.  I’ve always assumed the move was inspired by the Spirit Bomb Goku used to kill Kid Buu, where the Earth’s population was exhausted after contributing so much energy to the attack.  So you’d think at some point Baby would find the well had run dry. 

When I watched this, I thought maybe that’s what they were setting up.  The Kais have been preparing to use the Sacred Water to free Baby’s slaves, so it would have been kind of awesome to see Goku in a pinch, and Baby’s charging up a Revenge Death Ball to kill him, but then it fails because there aren’t enough Tuffles left to fuel the attack. 

The answer, of course, is that Goku has to struggle to overcome this move, because it’s Baby’s final big attack, and it needs to seem effective in order to build suspense.  Then Goku looks cooler when he finally muscles out of it.  And that’s fine.  That’s storytelling 101.  The problem is that there’s no rhyme or reason to it.  GT is literally having things happen in this story because they’re supposed to happen, not because they have any internal logic among the characters.

Like, okay, if you’re writing a story where a guy goes to the post office, you have to explain why he’s going to the post office.  You may be writing it because the plan is to have him meet the love of his life, who runs a small mail-order business and constantly ships packages.  He has to go to the post office, because the rest of the story won’t happen unless he bumps into the love interest while he’s there.  And that’s fine, but your character doesn’t know he’s a character in a love story.  He doesn’t know he’s going to meet his true love, which means he needs some other reason to go to the post office, a reason that would make sense to him.  So you have to write in a line about how he’s going to buy stamps, or check his P.O. Box, or whatever. 

This is why they have different techniques and power ups in Dragon Ball.  You have these back-and-forth superhero battles, and there has to be a way for characters to gain or lose the upper hand.  For the writer, it’s just a matter of shifting the balance of the fight to keep the reader engaged.  But for the characters, they’re in a real fight, so it has to make sense within their fictional world.  This is what draws the readers into your story.  If you do it right, you make the fictional world feel kind of real, and the reader wants to be part of it while you tell your story.

Look at the original Goku/Vegeta battle.  Goku uses the Kai-o-ken Times Three and beats up Vegeta.  He gets furious, and responds with the Gallick Gun, threatening to destroy Goku at a distance, neutralizing the Kai-o-ken’s close-quarters advantage.  Goku has to defend with a Kamehameha, but it’s not strong enough, so he uses the Kai-o-ken Times Four.  But Vegeta survives, so he gets frustrated enough to resort to fighting as a Great Ape.  Goku is too exhausted to fight back, so he uses a Solar Flare to blind Vegeta, and then tries to set up a Spirit Bomb. 

You see how that works? It’s not just that there’s a variety of techniques being used.  It certainly helps, but the important thing is that each technique shifts the balance of the battle.  The next move is a response to the last one, and each step of the fight builds off of what happened before. 

Compare this to the Goku/Baby fight.  Revenge Death Ball, Kamehameha, Revenge Death Ball, Kamehameha, Revenge Death Ball, Kamehameha-- enough already! 

Baby his Goku with an RBD early into the fight, and it didn’t do anything, not because of any in-story reason, but because the fight had just begun, and the writers wanted Goku to look badass.  Later, Goku hit Baby flush with a 10x Kamehameha, and it didn’t seem to do anything... until the next episode.  That delayed effect wasn’t a plot point; Toei just wanted to set up a cliffhanger.  Baby and Goku knocked each other out, but that doesn’t matter, because they got an instant recharge from their allies, essentially resetting the whole battle.  And now Baby’s finally starting to pressure Goku, not because he figured out a better strategy, but because the fight is almost over and Goku needs to look heroic before he turns the tables. 

So of course, Goku powers his way out of the Revenge Death Ball, and Baby is astonished, even though this is the second time he’s seen Goku do this.  Goku returns fire with (another) Kamehameha, and somehow this one puts Baby down for the count, even though the last dozen or so didn’t bother him much at all.

It finally looks like Baby is defeated, and the good guys realize that this means Vegeta will surely die.  Trunks says it’s for the best, since Baby is too great a threat.  But instead of killing Baby, Goku cuts off his tail, which causes Vegeta’s body to shrink back to humanoid size.

Wait, why?  Vegeta didn’t have a tail to begin with.  The whole point of Bulma’s machine was to use higher intensity Blutz radiation to compensate for the lack of the tail.  I don’t even get why the tail grew back, so how does cutting it off make any difference?

Also, even if the tail is important, can’t Baby just make Vegeta’s body sprout a new tail?  I’m not joking.  Baby made that goofy armor, and the big lenses over his eyes.  And Vegeta’s body’s been a lot taller while Baby’s been controlling it.  If he can do all of those things, you’d think making a new tail would be easy.

Then we cut to inside Vegeta’s body?  I guess?  We already saw Uub in there before, and this looks nothing like it.  It looks more like a microscope slide of a tissue sample.  Maybe this is supposed to be metaphorical.  Anyway, Baby is in trouble because his own body grew big to control Vegeta as a giant ape.  But now that the Oozaru transformation is reversing, Vegeta’s body is shrinking, and Baby can’t fit anymore?  What?

So Baby ejects himself from Vegeta’s body, but he looks to be about the size of a tennis ball while doing it.  So how was he too big to fit in Vegeta’s body, then? 

He returns to his humanoid appearance, which now looks as big and bulky as he did before he went ape, but with the same blue skin and Smurf Hat head he had when he debuted.  Honestly, I like this look the best.  It’s kind of a shame they only used it here, and in the opening credits of the show.  The good guys try to stop him from getting away, but he uses a bright light from his eyes to distract them, kind of a Tuffle knockoff of the Solar Flare.  Then he flies to a ship Bulma had standing by, and makes a run for it. 

No Bulmas allowed, though.  I’ll give Baby this much, he’s a classic heel. 

✨Positivity Page✨

Let me pause here to talk about the one bright spot of this whole episode.  Now that Baby is separated from Vegeta’s body, we finally get Vegeta back after all this time. 

He wakes up in his son’s arms, wonders what just happened, and then he looks over at Goku...

And then he just gives him the most adorable smile ever. You half-expect Goku to smile back and say “Well, good morning, sleepyhead!” I don’t ship Kakavege, but I totally get it. 

Back to business.  Pan’s like “Grandpa! Baby’s getting away!” and Goku’s like “Oh no he ain’t!”  Yeah, it turns out Goku was just letting Baby have some more rope.

First he waits until Baby’s ship is directly under the sun...

Then he fires another Kamehameha. 

Baby’s like “How could this have possibly happened?!”  Guy, did you forget that he knows that move?  What the fuck?  Anyway, good riddance, you Tuffle-lovin’, Machine Mutant creatin’, Doltaki hirin’ piece of shit. 

Then Goku’s like “There, I shot him into the Sun,” and the others are like “Oh, I get it now!  You let him fly off in his spaceship so you could shoot him into the sun!” Is it that complicated?  I’m not sure Goku needed to go this far to kill Baby, but given how slippery Baby has been in the past, this was probably the safest way to go about it. Unless the Big Gete Star finds him...

Back at the Lookout, Goku has finally reverted to his normal form, and it turns out that he’s still stuck as a kid. For all Super Saiyan 4 can do, it looks like it can’t reverse the wish that trapped Goku in this child body.  Pan is sorry that Chi-Chi didn’t get a chance to see it, but Goku assures her that he can use the transformation at will.  This is kind of an awkward conversation, because Pan seems very invested in Goku using SSJ4 in front of Chi-Chi, and I know it’s just because Chi-Chi was so upset about Goku being stuck as a kid, but we’re all sort of dancing around the reason she was so upset about it, a reason Pan’s too young to know about. 

Anyway, Goku has to choose his words carefully, but it’s pretty much confirmed that Chi-Chi is going to get a demonstration soon, and she’s gonna get an all-expenses-paid trip to Goku Town when things settle down.  Not the Goku Town where you get beat up.  I mean the softer side of Goku Town.  After dark. 

Yeaahhhh. 

(They’re gonna have sex, is my point.)

With Baby taken care of, the good guys dispense the Sacred Water to purify the Tuffle-ized Earthlings.  One thing I like is how the characters act like they’re being poisoned when this happens.  Then they snap out of it and they’re fine. 

Except for 18, who just no-sells it.  18 rules. 

Happy Pride Month from Dragon Ball GT. 

Everything seems to be wrapped up in a neat little package, except for one thing.  A bunch of tremors start, even on the Lookout, which really doesn’t make sense.  Popo says it’s because the Black Star Dragon Balls were never put in their proper place.  Goku said they returned them to the Lookout in Episode 28, but Dende was evil when that happened, and he handed them over to Baby.  

This part always used to confuse me, because I assumed that just returning the BS Dragon Balls to Earth was enough to reset the clock.  And then Baby used them to make another wish in Episode 30, so I thought Episode 39 here must have taken place a full year later. 

But no, that’s not how it works.  Apparently, you have to bring the Balls back to the Lookout, where they can be stored in a specific place. And since Dende was too evil to care about that part, he just blew it off.  So the clock was still running, and Pan estimates that they only have two more weeks before the Earth explodes.  There simply isn’t time to gather the Black Star Dragon Balls again, so what will they do?  Well, that’s a problem for next time.

✨Is this episode worse than “The Roaming Lake”?✨

You know, I would have thought that an episode like this could clear the Roaming Lake bar, but it doesn’t.  Sure, it’s the finale of a major arc, but it feels so hollow, especially after all the repetition and stalling we’ve seen that led up to it.  There’s a lot of nonsense in this episode, from Goku struggling with an attack he’s already shrugged off once before, to Baby’s confusing logistics for controlling Vegeta’s body. 

Also, it’s extremely unsatisfying how they went to all the trouble of defeating Baby, only for this Black Star Dragon Ball issue to come back to haunt them.  I mean, this part of the episode makes perfect sense, but it just points out how unfocused the whole series has been.  They started with the mission to recover the Balls, then got sidetracked into doing this Baby conflict, and now they’re trying to clean up the loose ends, but it just feels very awkward. I’m pretty sure this is why most Dragon Ball arcs only have one bad guy who’s responsible for everything, and when you beat him everything gets solved all at once. And this could have been an interesting opportunity to play with that formula by having two concurrent crises, but Toei didn’t plan for any of this, they just sort of backed into it.

Anyway, “The Roaming Lake” didn’t end with Nam realizing that he still needs to fix his village’s plummeting literacy rates, so that means it’s a better episode than Baby’s swan song.  The score is TRL - 39, GT - 0.

✨The Blade Braxton Memorial Haiku*✨

For sale: Baby shoes

Slightly Kamehameha’ed

Straight into the sun.

[makur0]

chi-chi-chi-chi oppai boin boin

((boing boing))

chi-chi-chi-chi oppai boin boin

((boing boing))

moge moge moge

[dance]

[are you dancing ?]

moge moge-moge chichi o moge!

moge-puirin poyon-moge

moge-pororon puyon-moge

manmaru-chi-chi-chi

sankaku-oppai rocket-boin

yasashiku

(moge!)

ikinari

(moge!)

bimyô ni

(moge!)

renzoku

(moge!)

chi-chi-chi-chi oppai

boin boin

((boing boing))

chi-chi-chi-chi oppai

boin boin

((boing boing))

moge moge-moge-more chichi o moge!

... moge!

moge moge-moge chichi o moge!

moge-poyoyon pain-moge

moge-paiin poin-moge

shimashima-chi-chi-chi

osaru no oppai bazooka-boin

kyô mo

(moge!)

ashita mo

(moge!)

tonikaki

(moge!)

mainichi

(moge!)

chi-chi-chi-chi oppai boin boin

((boing boing))

chi-chi-chi-chi oppai boin boin

((boing boing))

moge moge-moge-more

chichi o moge!

... moge!

Folgore: "hahahahaha mate mate"

"ufufufu tsukamaete goran"

Folgore: "oh yoshi asore tsukamaeta"

"iyan, soko wa ... ufu boin yo"

(laugh into the sunset like a majestic

freaking unicorn, you stud, you)

chi-chi-chi-chi oppai boin boin

((boing boing))

chi-chi-chi-chi oppai boin boin

((boing boing))

hey com'on!

chi-chi-chi-chi oppai boin boin

((boing boing))

chi-chi-chi-chi oppai boin boin

((boing boing))

moge moge-moge-more chichi o moge!

moge !

((moge!))

moge !!!

((MOGE!!!))

chichi o moge

... moge!

[hardcore-gaming-101]

Sanma no Meitantei

Sanma no Meitantei (or “Great Detective Sanma”) is an interesting footnote in the history of early Japanese adventure games. It’s a crossroads of sorts between the release of detective-based murder mysteries inspired by Yuji Horii’s Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken, and – of all things – the Japanese stand-up comedy scene of the mid-80s. This is clear from the get-go, since it stars renowned comedian Sanma Akashiya as the titular great detective, along with a host of famous double acts and comedians of the day who populate the game world.

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[365filmsbyauroranocte]

A.K.A. Serial Killer (Masao Adachi, 1975)

[easternmind]

Flyer for the HAL Laboratory 1988 game ‘Satsui no Kaisou: Power Soft Satsujin Jiken’. This graphical adventure is one of the most notable offspring from Yuji Horii’s highly influential ‘Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken’. However, its style and interface were somewhat more in line with murder investigation games of the late ‘80s such as Data East’s ‘Tantei Jingūji Saburō’, the first of a long-running series; or Namco’s ‘Sanma no Meitantei’, both hitting the market the previous year.

The player assumes the role of a young police detective by the name Akito Kashibatake, who is informed that an old friend was found dead at the Jogasaki coast cliffs, apparently as a result of a suicide. Upon examining the scene, he suspects foul play and initiates an investigation. The game takes place over a period of three days, during which the player must resolve the case and avoid a game over outcome. As the story unfolds, additional murders take place, creating a sense of urgency and tension. As each action taken by the player advances the clock a few minutes, finding the perpetrator can only be achieved by taking a strategic and sequential approach. This unique system also made the game particularly difficult, one of the reasons why it was not as popular as its contemporaries. The relatively poor market performance led to the cancellation of an initially planned sequel.

The artwork beautifully captures not only the element of time in association with death, as symbolized by the hanging rope that replaces the pendulum of the antique wooden clock, but also the shock of the initial scene in which the friend’s corpse is discovered by the sea. It also proposes an interesting rendition of the main character that turns the turn of the decade police detective stereotype on its head. The game concept and story originated at Hyperware, a small software house nested in the University of Tokyo, under the direction of Theoretical Science Group, creators of the Apple II version of the legendary 1979 arcade game,Heian-kyō Eirian. Touchingly, the HAL Laboratory website still reserves a small corner where visitors can discover more about the game.

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Renzoku terebi shōsetsu maiagare! FANBOOK

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Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken

©️ Chunsoft / Enix (MSX 1985 / Mobile 2003 / Mobile 2005)

Image sourced from hardcoregaming101.net As seen in the fourth episode of Pop Team Epic season 2.

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Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion Sound Episode 1 // Canon

Code Geass Sound episode are CD containing various story tracks, as well as character songs, that were released during both Season 1 and R2; Season 1 Sound episodes are staff release and canon material, expanding the world of Code geass, telling side stories and events which happened;

Alas R2 tracks are mostly crack material, relating situations with characters who either never met, or were enemies during the time being (aside from not being physically at the same place) and fall into the end of Alternate universe crackish stories, so not canon to the anime. ; The First sound episode of R2 and the last might be canon, as their settings and situations make sense within the show though; Also, character songs are canon material, both in S1 sound episode and R2 sound episode. I'll precise for each one about their status anyway so let's start with the first CD drama of season 1

(Quite the cover, isn't it ?)

The track list is

1 - REINCARNATION (C.C.'s first character song) 2 -Tanpen Drama STAGE 9.725** "The night before the showdown" 3 -Tanpen Drama STAGE 12.55 "Ticket of Dreams" 4 -Renzoku Drama "Modoranai Natsu no Hi" STAGE 0.515 "The uninvited prince" 5 REINCARNATION [instrumental]

**Just like with the picture dramas, the number before each sound episode refers to the moment of the anime where the sound drama happens; For example, Stage 9.725 happens right after Stage 9. Reincarnation ; C.C.'s character song, sung by YUKANA.

Audio Drama Stage 9.725 " The night before the showdown" (Before the Battle of Narita) You can listen to this drama in english dub right there

It begins as Lelouch vi Britannia is explaining some of the preparations he has made for the upcoming battle, to C.C.. Suddenly Suzaku Kururugi knocks on the door and Lelouch quickly shoves C.C. under the bed, much to her annoyance. Suzaku then enters the room and Lelouch admonishes him for barging in like he did. The conversation then begins to drift towards the time when they were both living at the Kururugi Shrine. Eventually Lelouch remarks that Suzaku has significantly changed and became less selfish since that time. Suzaku counters and says that Lelouch has become more rough than he used to be. Suzaku also discovers one of C.C.'s long hairs in Lelouch's room and assumes that he has a girlfriend. Suzaku asks what she is like and if she is cute and stuff like that. Lelouch says that she is the opposite of cute. Suzaku then infers that she must be the "home-maker" type and once again Lelouch puts C.C. down and explains how she is lazy and never lifts a finger. Suzaku begins to question if this is the right girl for Lelouch while he continues to point out all the flaws that C.C. has and the problems that she causes. She gets fed up with that and starts kicking the bed. Lelouch blames the rumbling on his alarm clock and Suzaku somehow accepts that as a reasonable answer. Lelouch then changes the subject to find out why Suzaku had come over at that time. He just wanted to give some math notes to Lelouch and may not be able to do so at another time due to a work trip that begins tomorrow. Suzaku then says goodbye and walks out. C.C. emerges from under the bed after Suzaku leaves and comments on how original Lelouch's description of their relationship was. She proceeds to question Lelouch and queries as to whether is he is prepared to kill those close to him or only willing to die as a martyr. Lelouch reaffirms his conviction to remove any obstacle in his way.

Audio Drama Stage 12.55 " Tickets of Dreams" (During Stage 12 when Shirley hesitates to invite Lelouch to the concert, before shit happens) You can listen to this audio drama in english dub right here

It begins with Milly asking Shirley why she is so frustrated. Shirley has received tickets to a concert from her father and she wants to invite Lelouch but is not sure how to go about it. Milly tries to put the problem in perspective by saying that compared to the Battle of Narita, and the losses suffered there, it should be easy to tell Lelouch that she likes him. Shirley claims she could not do that because she has too much self-doubt. Instead her imagination begins to run wild.

Her first imagination is that when she asks Lelouch to attend the concert with her, he does not realize she is asking him out and instead he decides to give the ticket to Nunnally effectively ruining Shirley’s plan. This causes Shirley to mentally decide to be more upfront and direct with her request.

Her next imagination involves her stumbling over her own words as she tries to be direct with Lelouch but accidentally ends up insulting him. In this perception he gets upset for her saying that he never has any plans and then continues to rant about how busy he is as Shirley decides that she can not be direct with her request either.

She starts to think that maybe there might be another reason that Lelouch is so busy. In this train of thought she imagines that Kallen and Lelouch have gotten engaged and so he simply can not go on a date with her. In her imagination, Kallen starts calling Lelouch "Lulu", like Shirley usually does, and they both giggle as Shirley yells at her own imagination to stop. Shirley then tries to convince herself that since Kallen has already said she does not like Lelouch, her previous imagination must be wrong.

She then starts to think that even though Lelouch might not be engaged to Kallen there might be someone else he likes. She then imagines that Lelouch is intent on marrying Nunnally who seems way excited about the prospect as well. Shirley freaks out that since they are siblings they can not get married by Nunnally claims that they somehow are not really related by blood so it is okay. Lelouch agrees.

Shirley tries to stop imagining crazy things but instead pictures Lelouch and Suzaku Kururugi getting married. She stops that abruptly only to have Milly say that Shirley has been talking aloud this whole time. Lelouch magically appears and tells Milly that they should head off to their honeymoon in Monaco. Rivalz then jumps in and claims Lelouch for his own. Arthur the cat does the same and everyone that had previously been in Shirley’s imagination come and debate on who gets to marry Lelouch. Lelouch stops the debate by saying there is only one of him and Milly decides that polygamy is the best answer. she says that everyone, including Shirley, should marry him. Everyone but Shirley seems to like this idea.

Finally, Milly slaps Shirley back into the real world and motivates her to go ask Lelouch out on a date. She runs off and finds Lelouch; In a single breathe she explains how she got the tickets and then asks him out. He kind of accepts and then Shirley runs off to think about how good she just did.

Audio Drama Stage 0.515 " The uninvited prince"(Takes place seven years before the Black Rebellion and shortly before the Invasion of Japan)

You can listen to this audio drama in english dub there

It begins as a young Suzaku comes to the dwelling of Lelouch vi Britannia and Nunnally vi Britannia. He first notices that laundry is hanging out to dry and remarks at how girlish it is. He is very angry that a Britannian prince would live so close to him.

Lelouch approaches him and asks if he should move the clothing. this innocent request is shot down by Suzaku as he lashes out at Lelouch for being a hostage while he is the heir to the Kururugi name. He feels really superior at this point and thinks that Lelouch shouldn't even be allowed to talk to him.

It shifts as Tohdoh knocks Suzaku down for not paying attention during their sparring match. Tohdoh asks if Lelouch is distracting him and Suzaku outright denies it. Tohdoh then tells him that they should be friends and Suzaku explains that Lelouch doesn't eat food they bring him and doesn't want any help. Tohdoh tries to appease Suzaku and tells him that even though he is a soldier he would rather avoid fighting. This does little to appease Suzaku.

Later that day Suzaku runs into a mob of kids beating up Lelouch at the foot of a mountain. Despite body guards being present no one does anything as Lelouch continues to take their beating. This infuriates Suzaku for some reason and he charges in and rescues Lelouch. He then discovers that the body guards are not there to protect Lelouch but rather watch him and ensure that he doesn't step out of line. They talk for a moment and Suzaku sees this royal prince squabble in the dirt for some loose change and a rewards card. Lelouch then tells Suzaku that regardless of what happens he will live by his own strength and doesn't need the charity of others. Lelouch then walks away and leaves Suzaku very confused.

That's about it for the first Sound episode CD. I added the summary for the tracks even though they were available in english in case video get taken down and also because there are always some shifting between english and japanese version.

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⛩️The Different Types of Drama Formats⛩️

🏯The most traditional format is known as renzoku, which is a series with roughly 10–12 episodes that last 45–60 minutes apiece. Renzoku dramas are aired once a week in the evening for a period of around three months. Young people's families, schools, and jobs are frequently crucial to the storyline, and these aspects are typically dramatized.

🏯The asadora is another format (asa is 朝 for "dawn" and dora is an abbreviation of "drama"). The 15-minute episodes, which can total up to 150, air every morning from Monday through Saturday for a period of six months. Because they are shorter and may be enjoyed while eating breakfast, they deal with softer and more straightforward subjects than traditional renzoku drama.

🏯Last but not least, Taiga (大河, literally "huge river"). A year's worth of this kind of drama is comprised of 50 45-minute episodes that air once a week. The lives of historical figures or significant eras in Japanese history are the subjects of the great majority of taiga plays.

🏯Tanpatsu, a one-shot narrative that airs only once or for a few nights straight, is the most recent. The concept and cast of a well-known historical renzoku play might potentially be the subject of a real movie or a special episode.